World: Getting It Straight

In his Kremlin speech, Old Soldier Khrushchev did a little Orwell-style
rewriting of history. "On the eve of World War II, the so-called
Western democracies conducted a double-faced policy," he cried. "They
sought to prod Nazi Germany against our country . . . It was the
perfidious policy of the ruling circles of Britain and France that
impelled us to conclude a nonaggression pact with Germany in August
1939."

West German Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano briskly set the
record straight: "It was nothing but a joint aggression pact that
brought together two people who intended from the very beginning to
deceive...